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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Henry David Thoreau
Music, Spring, Pleasure
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Henry David Thoreau
Wise, Fear, Reality
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.69, Xist Publishing

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Giving, Charity
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.119

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Philosophy, Poetry
"The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861".

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Clothes, Fog
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.23, Graphic Arts Books

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Nature, Gentle Touch
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Reality, Sublime, Atheism

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Henry David Thoreau
Depression, Valentines Day, Opportunity
Walden ch. 18 (1854)

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Henry David Thoreau
Odor, Corruption, Goodness
1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

Spring-an experience in immortality.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Immortality

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspirational, Philosophy
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.10, Heron Dance Press

The eye is the jewel of the body.

Henry David Thoreau
Eye, Jewels, Body
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.200, Courier Corporation

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

Henry David Thoreau
Environmental, Railroads
Walden ch. 2 (1854)

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

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Freedom, Law, World
Civil Disobedience (1849)

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful - while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with - he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Ignorance, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Excursions and Poems: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.147, Prabhat Prakashan

The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Nature, Cheer
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

Henry David Thoreau
Work, Men, Doors
Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.

Henry David Thoreau
Believe, Dark, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.95, Xist Publishing

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

Henry David Thoreau
Sadness, Joy
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.73, Jazzybee Verlag

If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul weather, so as to be there when it cleared up; we are then in the most suitable mood, and nature is most fresh and inspiring. There is no serenity so fair as that which is just established in a tearful eye.

Henry David Thoreau
Eye, Weather, Serenity
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.634, e-artnow

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.

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Inspirational, Night, Atmosphere
Henry David Thoreau, Horace Elisha Scudder, Harrison Gray Otis Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1803). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.408

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Henry David Thoreau
War, Men, Lakes
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.85, BookBaby

When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.

Henry David Thoreau
Loss, Echoes, Air
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.123, Xist Publishing

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

Henry David Thoreau
Self, Knowing Who You Are, Looks
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.

Henry David Thoreau
Travel, Mountain, Might
Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Elevating Ourselves: Thoreau on Mountains”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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